So Cubs are in the World Series

smerka · October 2016

i heard on the news that a ticket behind home plate is selling for $40,000. It is total insanity. If you had season tickets, what be your number to sell?

short+sassy · October 2016

Ah, but selling is not getting. I would be curious what those kind of seats for a big event normally go for. That might be a very "fair" price.

I'm going to pretend for a moment that you are talking about Superbowl tickets, first row, 50-yard line and the Saints are playing so that I can relate better. Hmmm...is it a bigger fantasy that I would ever have access to those kinds of tickets or that the Saints will ever be in the Superbowl again? But I digress, lol.

I'd keep them for less than $5K. More than that, they're sold. In reality, the Superbowl is only one game per year and very few tickets are available to the general public. I suspect $20K would be the minimum and probably more upwards of $50K for primo seats like that. I think even "nose bleed" seats for the SB sell for $5K-$10K on the "secondary" market, ie resellers.

smerka · October 2016

Oh yeah. Totally make it your own scenario. I'd never have season tickets to any sporting event. Maybe ComicCon or something like that. Or Paul Simon and Ben Folds - but my price would be $1,000.

Mustard76 · October 2016

I'm a third generation Cub fan. If I had tickets, I wouldn't sell 'em for a million dollars. OK, maybe a million, but $50k? Not a chance, I'd certainly hold onto them.

brij2006 · October 2016

If I had season tickets I would be going!

We both put our names in to get drawn for World Series tickets. Neither one of us got drawn. :-(
We said we would buy 4 (the max) and sell 2 of them.

We have friends who live in Akron, OH. So right outside Cleveland. The tickets for the Cleveland games are half the price of the ones for the Chicago games. So we seriously priced out buying 2 tickets for an Ohio game, driving out, bunking up at our friends, and driving back.
If our jobs were more lenient we would be going to the Thursday night game. We could do it for under $2k total.

julieanne912 · October 2016

So, not the World Series but a few seasons ago, the Avalanche and the Wild were in a game 7 of the first round of playoffs. We had season tickets, and sold them to a guy for $450, which was $350 profit for us. We did it because H had to travel for work and I'd rather have the money than go to the game (extra glad because the Avs lost LOL). If we were talking Stanley Cup finals, my # would probably go up to like $1,000 per ticket (or maybe more LOL).

Some neighbors of ours went to the Super Bowl this year. Both are huge Broncos fans. She said between the tickets, hotel, and airfare they spent close to $10,000.

I did read that tickets even for the not so great seats for the Cubs game are starting in the $2,000 range.

brij2006 · October 2016

julieanne912 said:

So, not the World Series but a few seasons ago, the Avalanche and the Wild were in a game 7 of the first round of playoffs. We had season tickets, and sold them to a guy for $450, which was $350 profit for us. We did it because H had to travel for work and I'd rather have the money than go to the game (extra glad because the Avs lost LOL). If we were talking Stanley Cup finals, my # would probably go up to like $1,000 per ticket (or maybe more LOL).

Some neighbors of ours went to the Super Bowl this year. Both are huge Broncos fans. She said between the tickets, hotel, and airfare they spent close to $10,000.

I did read that tickets even for the not so great seats for the Cubs game are starting in the $2,000 range.

Yup. Standing room only for the Saturday night game starts at $2,595 per ticket. Want a physical seat? Those start at $3,498.

abrewer5 · October 2016

If I had the tickets I'd sell for anything over $1,000 a probably because I have no interest in baseball. But for the super bowl I'd probably take no less than $7,000 a ticket.

It's on my bucket list to go to the super bowl one year, preferably with the Ravens in it (obviously not this year ugh)... I would probably spend $3,000 on a ticket to see them play. If they weren't playing I'd pay max $1,000 just for the experience.

I really don't love too many things enough to pay $40,000 for them... The only thing that comes to mind is a house and if I had the money a dog rescue.

vlagrl35 · October 2016

I've been having issues logging on the last few day. Last year the Royals went to the world series. we went to one of the home post season games and tickets for the 2 of us were $430 total. It was totally worth it. I would do it all over again to experience that. The baseball stadium was standing the entire night and it was as loud as a football stadium. Bonus was they won that night.

als1982 · October 2016

That's insane! My H went last year. Front row on the third base line for $800. He got a crazy good deal because it was a single ticket and he went by himself.

short+sassy · October 2016

On a slightly related note, I have to brag for a moment. I get free room offers all the time at Harrahs New Orleans, which I pass on 95% of the time.

When the Saints won the NFC Championship, meaning they would be in the Superbowl for the first (and, so far, only) time, I was on the phone with Harrahs 20 minutes later. Snagging my free room for Superbowl Sunday before any other players with free room offers thought of it, lol.

The Superbowl might have been in Miami that year, but I don't think there was any better place to be than on Bourbon St. that night. Which was walking distance from our hotel. It was phenomenal.

I don't think I've ever seen Bourbon St. so devoid of people. Everyone was packed inside the bars watching the game. Then the Saints won and it went from zero people on Bourbon to the street absolutely packed.

hoffse · October 2016

I'd sell for $1,000 easy. That's probably why I don't have season tickets for any teams. I just don't care about any team that much.

Where I live people go to extreme measures for tickets for college football. To get season tickets for Alabama you have to be a major donor and get off the wait list. The wait list is like 30,000 people long or something insane. If you stop donating you lose your place in line.

A bunch of people in my office have started booking flights to the national championship as soon as it's announced, and they just pay for refundable fares in case Alabama doesn't make it. Last year the people who did not do this had to charter planes to get there. Several people in my office ended up chartering a plane (or went in on a charter with a group).

I confess that I do not understand this at all.

julieanne912 · October 2016

als1982 said:

That's insane! My H went last year. Front row on the third base line for $800. He got a crazy good deal because it was a single ticket and he went by himself.

A friend of ours who is an Indians fan has already done this for games 5 and 6 of the World Series. He lives here in CO but will fly out there if they get to game 5 and 6. I'm not sure what he paid but I do know one of his tickets is for like 5 rows behind home plate. He got a better deal than normal because it's a single.

short+sassy · October 2016

hoffse said:

I'd sell for $1,000 easy. That's probably why I don't have season tickets for any teams. I just don't care about any team that much.

Where I live people go to extreme measures for tickets for college football. To get season tickets for Alabama you have to be a major donor and get off the wait list. The wait list is like 30,000 people long or something insane. If you stop donating you lose your place in line.

A bunch of people in my office have started booking flights to the national championship as soon as it's announced, and they just pay for refundable fares in case Alabama doesn't make it. Last year the people who did not do this had to charter planes to get there. Several people in my office ended up chartering a plane (or went in on a charter with a group).

I confess that I do not understand this at all.

WOW! Isn't that something? It sounds like such a far off shot, yet that many people keep those donations rolling in out of hope.

And then there's me. I just got a call from my alma mater on Friday wanting a donation. They couldn't even get 25 bucks out of me. It was a lifetime ago, I don't have any "rah rah" spirit.

vlagrl35 · October 2016

als1982 said:

That's insane! My H went last year. Front row on the third base line for $800. He got a crazy good deal because it was a single ticket and he went by himself.

That's crazy! Our seats were in the balcony higher up. We had money for it. I kept telling DH we need to go because who knows when next time is. I was upset that we hadn't bought tickets yet. Went to take a shower and when I got out DH told me he bought the tickets.

csuave · October 2016

For a big game for one of my teams and assuming I only had access to tickets for one game I'd probably sell for $3K per ticket. Superbowl might be more.
If I had tickets for more than one game, then as long as I went to at least one game I would sell the others for any kind of reasonable profit.

Now, my teams aren't quite in the drought that the Cubs are so I can see that driving the price higher in Chicago and that kind of context could potentially change my answer.

jtmh2012 · October 2016

I'd sell to the highest bidder.

julieanne912 · October 2016

I also think it's interesting that the ticket prices in Chicago are way higher than Cleveland. I guess it's because of a higher population. If I were a Cubs fan maybe I'd fly to Cleveland to watch those games instead, probably would be cheaper than buying a standing room only ticket at Wrigley for $2,500! Something to be said for watching a game at Wrigley though.

mmabe · October 2016

Since Cleveland is a much smaller city, it does not have the same market. I think there will be quite a few Cub fans in Cleveland due to the prices.

When we were part of a group that had season tickets, no one would have sold their tickets regardless of the price. However, each person was only guaranteed one ticket to one game. In that situation, I would go. I'm not sure I'd ever sell World Series tickets even if I had them for every game.

csuave · November 2016

Congratulations Cubs and Cubs fans. What a game 7 and what a series!

Of course when I was watching last night I was thinking about this post and wondering how much $ people decided to sell their tickets for

brij2006 · November 2016

.....So the Cubs won the World Series!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

One happy Cubs fan here.

smerka · November 2016

I am not a baseball fan but it is impossible to not be happy for the Cubs and Cub fans everywhere. It's been 108 years.

formerlyjessica490 · November 2016

Good for them!!

julieanne912 · November 2016

That was an awesome game!! Probably one of the better games I've ever watched, even though I'm not really a fan of either team. Our poor Indians fan friend who flew out there to watch game 6 and 7 is so sad though

short+sassy · November 2016

csuave said:

Congratulations Cubs and Cubs fans. What a game 7 and what a series!

Of course when I was watching last night I was thinking about this post and wondering how much $ people decided to sell their tickets for

Haha, me too! I was thinking, "Wow, such an especially important World Series. And it went to the 7th game!!! Those tickets must have been selling for an ungodly fortune."

mmabe · November 2016

I know Game 7 tickets were significantly more than Game 6 since the Cubs could not win in Game 6. From what I saw, Games 6 and 7 were significantly cheaper than Games 3, 4, and 5. I don't know if this changed after the Cubs won Game 6 because I never looked again. When I looked for Game 3 tickets, the cheapest were 1800 and that was for standing room. I know several people who attended various games, but I don't feel comfortable asking any of them how much they paid!!

smerka · November 2016

I have friends who bought tickets for Sunday's game that morning. I think the prices dropped after Saturday's loss. If Game 7 had been in Chicago, tickets would have been ridiculous but I heard someone on the radio say they paid $1,000 for standing room in Cleveland.

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